What is Dayforce?
Dayforce (formerly Ceridian) is a global human capital management (HCM) platform that transforms the employee experience. It unifies data from across the entire employee lifecycle to enable better decision-making at every level. Dayforce is a comprehensive cloud platform that combines HR, payroll, benefits, workforce management, and talent management in a single application. Our scalable platform is built with a single, flexible rules engine combined with real-time updates and calculations that help address complex regulatory requirements.
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85 Likeliness to Recommend
97 Plan to Renew
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78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+76 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Dayforce?
Pros
- Respectful
- Continually Improving Product
- Acts with Integrity
- Enables Productivity
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Usability and Intuitiveness
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Dayforce Reviews
Leona L.
- Role: Human Resources
- Industry: Construction
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2025
Utilization was ok, customer service terrible
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Dayforce from other similar products?
Moved from Dayforce to UKG, world of difference in all aspects of recruiting, talent management, on-boarding, timekeeping, payroll, benefits management, ease of use. Dayforce does not respond to complaint about incorrect billing practices. They are holding our employee information hostage until we pay for invoices through 2024, even though we ended our service with them in July 2022. Numerous emails and no follow up.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It was alright for a time.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The product didn't offer enough uses to justify the expense.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Don't do it! They have the absolute worst customer service and follow up. Unscrupulous tactics used by holding our employee information hostage.
Cons
- Inhibits Innovation
- Slower Product Innovation
- Commodity Features
Elena C.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2025
Dayforce review
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Dayforce from other similar products?
Easy to navigate , advanced HR features, can track our applicants and integrates with our system apps with ease
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Great customer support, cost efficient and has payroll processing
What do you dislike most about this product?
Sometimes i find my account logged out without my knowledge
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Great tool ,saves time and improves efficiency
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
- Efficient Service
Bella C.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2025
Trusted Workforce Management Platform
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Dayforce from other similar products?
Dayforce stands out in the market because of its very noticeable feature which is Real-Time Payroll.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I love how Dayforce is offering a single platform for managing the whole employee process and how I am able to quickly approve schedules, time-off requests, and more using the Shift Bidding and Swaps feature. I really appreciate the Real-Time Payroll feature as the real-time data required for budgeting and forecasting. Dayforce has made the communication gap nil between employees and managers, as communication has become very convenient by using this platform. As it is a cloud based tool therefore my data is accessible anytime and is secure for sure.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Although Dayforce is a great platform but sometimes during high times such as payroll processing, the system gets slow or unresponsive which is understandable but create a fuss for a moment.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would like to highlight some features of Dayforce that I believe one should definitely consider. One is the Continuous Performance Management feature, which is great as it has built-in tools for setting goals, tracking performance, and giving feedback. The other one would be the Real-Time Payroll feature which calculates the pay on per day basis instead of doing at pay cycle end.
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
- Effective Service
